American actor
Born: February 9, 1943
Joe Pesci, in full Joseph Frank Pesci, (born February 9, 1943, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.), American character actor who was equally adept at comic roles and at playing menacing characters.
Pesci grew up in a blue-collar family and took acting, dancing, and music classes from an early age. He became a child actor and appeared onstage from the time he was five years old. At the age of 10, he performed regularly on a television variety show called Startime Kids. In his 20s, he began a music career, singing in nightclubs and playing guitar for the pop band Joey Dee and the Starliters, and in 1968 he recorded an album (under the name Joe Ritchie), Little Joe Sure Can Sing! Pesci later formed a musical comedy nightclub act with the actor Frank Vincent. Pesci’s first credited movie appearance was in a low-budget crime film, The Death Collector (1976), but further roles were not forthcoming, so he abandoned acting as a career and instead became the manager of an Italian restaurant in New York City. However, the actor Robert De Niro had seen and admired Pesci’s performance in The Death Collector and brought him to the attention of Martin Scorsese, who cast Pesci as the brother of boxer Jake LaMotta in the boxing biopic Raging Bull (1980). Pesci earned critical praise, and he was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for best supporting actor.
Joe Pesci’s 5 most popular quotes
- I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn’t match my grill.
- I’m just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?
- You try too hard. Winners forget they’re in a race. They just love to run.
- You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.
- My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if its the right thing to do – push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
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